Too many unfinished mosques sprinkled across Brisbane?

President of Queensland's Eidfest Association Yasmin Kahn says Brisbane's Muslim community need to better plan for growth within the community as plans for more mosques are being built while many remain unfinished.

In a recent Facebook post Ms Kahn said the community needed to "get its act together" after hearing of "another call for a fundraiser for another mosque".

"We continue to build mosques to cater for our own ethnic community, and we run out of money, and then we leave broken, run down mosques littered across the City.

"Islam and the mosque is about community, but we seem to want to segregate along ethnic lines - instead of having a few mosques full all the time, we have many half made mosques with half a dozen people," she wrote.

Ms Kahn told 612 ABC Brisbane's Spencer Howson that she encourages growth for the Muslim community but believes a more consolidated approach would serve the community better.

"I think it's wonderful that we want to build mosques because it shows the community is growing.

She says the community drives and funds projects which involve new places of prayer, not an organisational hierarchy with unlimited funds.

"It's a bit different our community to other organisations where there is no church hierarchy that says we'll put one there and there and there's money coming from somewhere to put it.

But if there are four other mosques around that are doing the same thing trying to look for the same money in the same pool of money and they're not finished, it fascinates me as to why you would build another one."

She said across the city there are currently 8 mosques that are either under construction, halted due to money run outs, or in plans to build.

"There are mosques around that have been used as mosques then they decide that they've outgrown it and they need to make it bigger, so they put plans in to make a bigger area.

"There are mosques that are sitting around for 5 or 6 years that are no-where near finished.

"In some suburbs...there are 3 mosques in a five kilometre radius and none of them are quite finished.

"It doesn't look good; it's not a good message for our community."

She said she'd like to see the greater Muslim community come together to plan for the religion's growth in an economically viable way.

"There doesn't seem to be any business planning involved in fundraising or how you get that money."

"Let's do it more business-like and lets be a little bit more prudent about where we put them and how we're going to finance it."

The ABC has sought comment from the Islamic Council of Queensland for this story.

Shoes are shed as a boy runs upstairs to evening prayers at Darra Mosque.
Yasmin Kahn says believes a more consolidated approach for the building of new Mosques in Brisbane would serve the community better
(ABC: Brigid Andersen)